Saturday, 8 October 2016

Max Richards shares: 3, Judith Rodriguez and Dimitris Tsaloumas

Last
Thursday's posting, an account of Max Richards’ (1937-2016) and John Barnes’
visit to the poet Dimitris Tsaloumas, has a footnote. In a separate file this
morning I found ‘Two Seniors’, a poem about this period of visits. It makes
sense of the line in Max’s anecdotes in ‘share 1’ about ‘Two Seniors’. "Tercet-constructing Max" is how poet friend Bill Wootton describes him in 'Maxless', a eulogy posted on the 4th of October on Facebook. Here are the tercets at work, also what Bill calls his "measured lopes / of goodwill or gentle enquiry".